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Health shocks and the intergenerational transmission of inequality : evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Dhanaraj, Sowmya - 2015

Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important … of paternal and maternal shocks on different cohort groups, roles of cognitive abilities of children and quality of …

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

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Schooling and parental death

Gertler, Paul J.; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - In: The review of economics and statistics 86 (2004) 1, pp. 211-225

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Parental risk preferences, maternal bargaining power, and the educational progressions of children : lab-in-the-field evidence from rural Côte d'Ivoire

Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gbakou, Monnet; … - 2022

. Data from 135 couples and their children show that the father's risk aversion is negatively associated with school … evidence that points to a preference for current income generated by the employment of boys in high-value cash crop production …

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

countries depends more on the human capital levels of their parents’ ethnic group (ethnic capital) than on parental investment …

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Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement : evidence from India

Varghese, Vinitha - 2022

proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … increased by 2 per cent. I further show that consolidation decreased the proportion of high scorers among grade 5 students by 0 ….08 and did not decrease the proportion of high scorers among grade 8 students by more than 0.02. School consolidation is a …

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Are there returns to the wages of young men from working while in school?

Hotz, Vincent Joseph (contributor) - In: The review of economics and statistics 84 (2002) 2, pp. 221-236

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Do academically struggling students benefit from continued student loan access? : evidence from university and beyond

Chu, Yu-wei Luke; Cuffe, Harold E. - In: The review of economics and statistics 106 (2024) 1, pp. 68-84

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Inequality in education : evidence for Latin America

Cruces, Guillermo; García Domench, Carolina; … - 2011

2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

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The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil

Barreto, Yuri; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2022

This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most important cocoa production region until 1989, the southeast of...

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